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Lawrence of ‘The Last Word’, MSNBC News, in the video linked below, gives his opinion on:
Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, also the mother of his first three children including his daughter, Ivanka, was at least somewhat illegally (my phrase) in America when Donald Trump married her in 1977, and Ivana still was not a US citizen until 11 years after she and Donald got married.
Their three children, Eric, Ivanka, and Donald Jr Trump, were born to a mother who had not yet become an American citizen. Ivana Trump had done various illegal fraudulent things to get to America after leaving the then communist Czech Republic in 1972; Ivana worked in America illegally, and then married Donald Trump while still a foreigner, who came into Canada illegally from Austria, and then ‘possibly legally’ into America.
What kind of impact did this situation of Donald Trump’s first wife, Ivana, and mother of their three children, while still not yet a US citizen, have on the now US President, and these three Trump children who are very influential and active, to a greater or lesser degree, in the operation of the US government along with their father, Donald Trump?
Below is a link to a recent video about Ivanka Trump (Kushner), Donald Trump’s daughter and Ivanka’s not speaking up very much or doing very much in regard to the children of immigrants (whatever their status) being separated from them; and this situation not readily remedied, even after great outcry! Some restoring of children to their parent(s), but still not yet fully taken care of. How could there have been such a ‘hard-hearted’ ruling in the first place?
I believe there are many things conservative Republicans agree are wrong, many caused in the Obama administration, and would like to see changed, but the HOW of changing these things by the person inthe President’s seat right now, in my opinion, is NOT very often in line with God’s heart and wisdom, nor the values our country and US Constitution, and also the Declaration of Independence, was/is based on!I believe Donald Trump more often aligns with “What would Putin do?” – than the Judeo/Christian values America was based on, and a mentality of “What would Jesus do?”
Biblical values! That is what made America GREAT! And will make any nation GREAT!
Justice (by knowing right from wong from the Bible, our ‘moral base’!) with Mercy!!
The Bible says “Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:34)
And, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn!” (Proverbs 29:2)

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Good news: In two years, we’ll have a new president. Bad news: If we make it that long.

My “good” prediction is based on the Law of the Pendulum. Enough Americans, including most independent voters, will be so ready to shed Donald Trump and his little shop of horrors that the 2018 midterm elections are all but certain to be a landslide — no, make that a mudslide — sweep of the House and Senate. If Republicans took both houses in a groundswell of the people’s rejection of Obamacare, Democrats will take them back in a tsunami of protest.

Once ensconced, it would take a Democratic majority approximately 30 seconds to begin impeachment proceedings selecting from an accumulating pile of lies, overreach and just plain sloppiness. That is, assuming Trump hasn’t already been shown the exit.

Or that he hasn’t declared martial law (all those anarchists, you know) and effectively silenced dissent. We’re already well on our way to the latter via Trump’s incessant attacks on the media — “among the most dishonest human beings on Earth” — and press secretary Sean Spicer’s rabid-chihuahua, daily press briefings. (Note to Sean: Whatever he’s promised you, it’s not worth becoming Melissa McCarthy’s punching bag. But really, don’t stop.)

With luck, and Cabinet-level courage that is not much in evidence, there’s a chance we won’t have to wait two long years, during which, let’s face it, anything could happen. In anticipation of circumstances warranting a speedier presidential replacement, wiser minds added Section 4 to the 25th Amendment, which removes the president if a majority of the Cabinet and the vice president think it necessary, i.e., if the president is injured or falls too ill to serve. Or, by extension, by being so incompetent — or not-quite-right — that he or she poses a threat to the nation and must be removed immediately and replaced by the vice president.

Aren’t we there, yet?

Thus far, Trump and his henchmen have conducted a full frontal assault on civil liberties, open government and religious freedom, as well as instigating or condoning a cascade of ethics violations ranging from the serious (business conflicts of interest) to the absurd (attacking a department store for dropping his daughter’s fashion line). And, no, it’s not just a father defending his daughter. It’s the president of the United States bullying a particular business and, more generally, making a public case against free enterprise.

To an objective observer, it would seem impossible to defend the perilous absurdities emanating from the White House and from at least one executive agency, the Agriculture Department, which recently scrubbed animal abuse reports from its website, leaving puppies, kittens, horses and others to fend for themselves.

In a hopeful note, a few Republicans are speaking out, but the list is short.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz recently got a taste of what’s ahead for Republican incumbents. Facing an unruly crowd at a town hall meeting in Utah, the House Oversight Committee chairman was booed nearly every time he mentioned Trump. Even if many in the crowd were members of opposition groups, the evening provided a glimpse of the next two years. From 2010’s tea party to 2018’s resistance, the pendulum barely had time to pause before beginning its leftward trek.

While we wait for it to someday find the nation’s center, where so many wait impatiently, it seems clear that the president, who swore an oath to defend the U.S. Constitution, has never read it. Nor, apparently, has he ever even watched a Hollywood rendering of the presidency. A single episode of “The West Wing” would have taught Trump more about his new job than he seems to know — or care.

Far more compelling than keeping his promise to act presidential is keeping campaign promises against reason, signing poorly conceived executive orders, bashing the judicial and legislative branches, and tweeting his spleen to a wondering and worrying world.

Trump’s childish and petulant manner, meanwhile, further reinforces long-held concerns that this man can’t be trusted to lead a dog-and-pony act, much less the nation. Most worrisome is how long Trump can tolerate the protests, criticisms, humiliations, rebuttals and defeats — and what price he’ll try to exact from those who refused to look away.

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